Movies like Stick

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Stick (1985)
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Stick (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Ernest (Stick) Stickley just out of prison agrees to help a friend deliver a package. It's a setup and his friend is killed. Stick is going to find out why!
Style: neo noir, perverse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, revenge, machine gun, betrayal, murder, gangster, assassin, criminal, ex convict, albino, death of friend, thief, kidnapping, death, new life, new love, investigation, best friend, vengeance, rivalry, law enforcement, police detective, dishonesty, love, mafia ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: miami, usa, florida
Keyword: gangsters, short shorts

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Most similar movies to Stick

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, revenge, rivalry, gangster, dishonesty, vengeance and violence mostly in Crime, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Stick: Heat (1986), Sharky's Machine (1981), Payback: Straight Up (2006), Stiletto (2008), Boiling Point (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Heat (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together to move to Venice, Italy.
Style: neo noir, independent film, exciting, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bodyguard, prostitute, gambling, killer, casino, fistfight, tough guy, psychopath, hotel room, rape, gambler, male bonding ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, venice, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Sharky's Machine (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Accompanied by an all-star jazz soundtrack, Sharky's new "machine" gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, sexy, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: prostitute, corruption, murder, gangster, police investigation, law enforcement, police, fighting crime, partner, shootout, assassin, investigation ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Payback: Straight Up (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style: neo noir, ambiguous ending, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, betrayal, vengeance, criminal, prostitute, tough heroes, organized crime, criminal's revenge, crime boss, corrupt cop, husband wife relationship, gangster ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 4.8
 3K
Stiletto (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, vengeance, police investigation, hitman, betrayal, rivalry, tough heroes, police detective, dishonesty, danger, kick-butt women, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Boiling Point (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style: suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover cop, murder, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, tough heroes, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Walking the Edge (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
Style: hood, neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, auto mechanic, taxi, woman with a gun, teenager, gang, driver, big city, ghetto, taxi driver, vengeance, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Johnny Handsome (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Style: intense, harsh, suspense, neo noir, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: prison, plastic surgery, murder, betrayal, vengeance, gangster, robbery, rehabilitation, revenge, police, girlfriend, doctor ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A debt collector for the mob (Academy Award(R)-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr.) finds his fate taking a series of treacherous turns after his powerful boss and mentor (Miguel Ferrer) is caught in a dangerous double cross with the most dangerous drug dealer ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, drug dealing, gangster, gunfight, tough heroes, rivalry, criminal heroes, chases and races, violence spree, vengeance, gang, hitman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 5.8
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Malone (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution. Adapted from the novel "Shotgun," by William ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, cia agent, murder, undercover, uninhibited rivalry, on the run, chase, dishonesty, rivalry, danger, assassin, vigilante ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, langley virginia, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.2
 129K
Parker (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, thief, tough heroes, fight scenes, betrayal, mafia, revenge, assassin, romancing a criminal, car chase, happy ending ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa, ohio, new orleans ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: puerto rican, gangster, mafia, gang, drug dealing, police corruption, master criminal, betrayal, vengeance, best friend, rise to the top, tragic hero ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
City of Industry (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, perverse, hood, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, betrayal, gangster, gang, robbery, murder, violence, money, kidnapping, brother, ghetto, criminal ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, florida, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.8
 13K
Next of Kin (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Truman Gates, a Chicago cop, sets out to find his brother's killer. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
Style: exciting, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, police investigation, complex characters, murder, mafia, revenge, redneck, gangster, brother brother relationship, death of brother, death, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: chicago, kentucky, usa, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Monument Ave. (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, drug dealing, criminal heroes, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, juvenile delinquency, gang, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: boston, ireland, massachusetts, connecticut, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Chicago Overcoat (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, hitman, rivalry, aging, elderly, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, one last chance, mafia, investigation, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Payback (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, black comedy, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: vengeance, money, organized crime, revenge, betrayal, anti hero, mafia, heist, greed, robbery, prostitute, violence ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Pistol Whipped (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, gambling, spy, aikido, downfall, danger, introspection, life is a bitch, dishonesty, redemption, father daughter relationship, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.7
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Sabotage (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, ...
Style: exciting, intense, stylized, suspense, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, drug cartel, vengeance, crime scene, revenge, death of friend, revenge killing, tough law enforcer, danger, dishonesty, drug, violent ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: mexico, atlanta georgia, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Kill Reflex (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Williamson plays a cop called 'Soda Cracker', whose partner was killed in a mysterious assassination. He is convinced that the murder was committed by his old enemy, Ivan Moss, played by Bo Svenson. Despite threats from the mob and from ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, woman with a gun, gangster, battle zone, murder, police corruption, law enforcement, assassination, rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, investigation ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.4
 4K
Black Caesar (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, hood, crime drama, grim ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, gangster, black, mafia, tough guy, mobster, exploitation, organized crime, gang, ghetto, blues, african american gangster ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1965, year 1972 ...
Place: new york, harlem, usa, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.0
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Fighting Back (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial ...
Style: tense, exciting, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, vigilante, vigilantism, violence, urban, teenager, vietnam war, city, exploitation, vengeance, interracial relations, racism ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.4
 38K
Thief (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he ...
Style: neo noir, cerebral, cult classic, retro, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, safecracker, mafia, organized crime, heist, character study, criminal, bank robber, great ending, betrayal, bank, hustler ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, revenge, investigation, murder, vengeance, police investigation, law enforcement, cop, male pubic hair, chase, hitman, organized crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This movie features a character who is supposed to be the descendant of the character played Steve McQueen in the television series of the same name. And like McQueen's Josh Randall, Hauer's Nick Randall is also a bounty. But also an ...
Style: intense, suspenseful, rough, serious, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: terrorism, justice, chase, vengeance, tough heroes, police investigation, undercover, master criminal, against the odds, on the run, dishonesty, race against time ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.6
 2K
Rent-a-Cop (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When call-girl Della gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber that busted in on the drug agents and the drug dealers. She gets rescued by vice cop Church who is accused of ...
Style: suspenseful, intense, serious, neo noir, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, brutality, murder, twists and turns, fighting crime, witnessing a crime, cons and scams, police officer, prostitute, police investigation, cop, christmas ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.4
 396
Maximum Force (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
Style: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, renegade, gangster, police detective, prostitute, chase, undercover, computer cracker, cop, partner, against the odds, working undercover ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Don Is Dead (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After his mistress is murdered a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, mob boss, mobster, explosions, hitman, murder, betrayal, female nudity, tough heroes, siblings relations, love triangle ...
Time: 70s
Place: florida, usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.1
 36K
Get Carter (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Remake of the British classic. Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a ...
Style: stylized, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, gangster, lone wolves, revenge, murder, vengeance, brutality, criminal heroes, rivalry, criminal's revenge, assassin, adaptation ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, seattle, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.7
 10K
Mr. Majestyk (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Watermelon farmer Vince Majestyk (Charles Bronson) goes after the Mob, when they try to strong arm him to use their melon picking crew.
Style: neo noir, suspense, talky, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, organized crime, vengeance, bullying, car chase, violence, assassin, arms dealer, murder, rivalry, danger, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Blood of Redemption (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father, the ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: frame up, betrayal, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, tough heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns, organized crime, criminal, murder, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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